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The time is now! As Pablo Picasso once said, ‘Action is the foundational key to all success.’

At a recent informal symposium – hosted by the passionate, award-winning writer-producer-director Christopher Nolan and artist Tacita Dean, and sponsored by the Getty Research Institute – the importance of taking action to preserve today’s moving images was brought to bear.

Opening Ceremony's designers and co-founders Humberto Leon and Carol Lim are celebrating photography with their new collection that debuts at New York Fashion Week. Their collection features the early photography of renowned film director Spike Jonze, capturing the skateboard, BMX, music, and film subcultures of which Jonze was an integral part. It also honors the Kodak brand with a select capsule collection. This capsule embodies Kodak’s classic logo in bold, primary-color graphics on T-shirts and on jersey or fleece separates. Both Carol and Humberto told us why they wanted to honor their friend Spike and collaborate with Kodak:

What were your thoughts on integrating the different elements of Spike Jonze’s photography and the Kodak logo into your new collection?Carol & Humberto: We wanted to celebrate photography with this collection. When we had the opportunity to delve into Spike's archives, we were inspired by the beauty of classic film photography, the painstaking process of capturing moments, and that excitement a picture-taker feels when reviewing proofs to see what the lens caught and selecting that perfect image to print. There is something about that spontaneity and surprise that we love, and the quality of images on film is so unlike anything else. We've always been a fan of the art and looking through Spike's work. Exploring his narrative in and translating that format into a collection was an exciting process that was compounded by our collaboration with Kodak. We have always appreciated Kodak's devotion and longstanding history with photography.

Women In Film joined Los Angeles-based film, television and theater production company CalmDown Productions, Inc. for the fifth year to present the 2015 Women In Film/CalmDown Productions Grant to a female director in the Sundance Film Festival Shorts Program. A jury of WIF educators, filmmakers and artists chose filmmaker Stella Kyriakopoulos as the 2015 recipient for her work on VOLTA. This 12-minute short is about the tragic ramifications of a fallen economy in Greece and the impact it has on a mother and daughter. With this grant, Kyriakopoulos takes home $5,000 cash from Women In Film and CalmDown Productions, Inc., in addition to 5,000 feet of motion picture film from Kodak to be transferred by Technicolor, and $1,000 worth of budgeting and scheduling software from Entertainment Partners.

Kodak will once again support the independent filmmaking community at the Slamdance and Sundance Film Festivals, which are running concurrently in Park City, Utah.

“These two festivals showcase innovative filmmakers who bring fresh ideas and a new perspective to the screen every year, and Kodak is dedicated to supporting their art,” says Andrew Evenski, President and General Manager for Entertainment & Commercial Films at Kodak. “Motion picture film plays an important role in the indie community, giving these unique storytellers the creative freedom and option to tell their stories as they envisioned.”

The countdown has begun as the entertainment industry eagerly looks to the New Year when Oscar® nominations are announced, and gears up for a new wave of highly-anticipated movies to arrive at theaters. One thing is for certain, 2015 will prove to be a year that is filmworthy.

Oscar buzz has been building around a number of productions originating on Kodak film, including Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, James Gray’s The Immigrant, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game, and Theodore Melfi’s St. Vincent.